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Syrian refugees plea to save child's eye in Lebanon

By Abdul Hafiz Holani (Zaman Al Wasl)- Sham Mohammad Arslan, 4-year-old refugee girl in Lebanon, has lost sight in her left eye due to medical mistake by a Lebanese doctor, father says. Sham is in urgent need for a surgery for her eye costs $3000. Such a number that is seldom to find with...

Turkey halts work of US aid group helping Syrians

U.S. aid group Mercy Corps said Tuesday that the Turkish government had revoked its permit, halting its work in the country helping Syrians. "Our hearts are broken by this turn of events, which comes after five years of cooperation with the government of Turkey and other local partners,"...

Lebanon’s southern town shuts shops run by Syrian refugees

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Many towns in southern Lebanon have started issuing orders to close shops and workshops managed and owned by Syrians, according to sources. The town council of al-Bisariyah in the countryside of Saida city in southern Lebanon had on March 4, announced closing all shops owned or...